
Brooke Greenberg (b. January 8, 1993) is, as of January 2010, a 17 year old girl who lives in Reisterstown, Maryland, which is a northern suburb of Baltimore. She is a very special little person, as she has not aged or changed physically, mentally, or emotionally in the past 14 years. I definitely can at least empathize with her situation, because I have high functioning autism, and well, socially and emotionally, I'm like a four or five year old myself (I get told this by friends and family a lot too). Little Brooke is 30 inches tall (she has grown 3 inches since last time WBAL did this report on her) and now weighs in at 16 lbs. Certainly nowhere near a typical 17 year old in height or weight. She lives with her parents and 3 wonderful sisters who love her very much. There is even a better video of her on Dateline NBC; if you google "Brooke Greenberg Dateline NBC", you will find a 8 minute video that Dateline did on her in 2005 October. She is very cute and as her father Howard calls her, "the most sweetest and kindest person I know of". Her pediatrician, Dr. Lawrence Pakula, who also studies about autism and Attention Deficit Disorder in children (both of which I have), mentions that people might think Brooke is perhaps a "handicapped 2 year old", but would never think she was 17, if they didn't know her. Brooke doesn't speak, but that doesn't mean she's not smart. (For example, there have been autistic people who have gone to college who don't speak at all and are <b>...</b>
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